THE EVOLUTION OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURAL LAND AREAS IN THE EMERGING COUNTRIES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

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Ioan Sebastian Brumă (sebastian_bruma@yahoo.com)
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Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, 2014, vol. 11, issue 2, pages 167-179

Abstract: The paper analyses the manner in which organic agriculture has developed in the emerging countries of the European Union, in particular during the current economic crisis. Organic agriculture represents a continuously expanding sector in the European Union. In the period 2000-2012, the total utilized area for organic production increased by 6.7% per year on the average, reaching approximately 9.6 million hectares, accounting for 5.4% of the total utilized agricultural area in the EU. The emerging nations in the European Union (Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania) have experienced a brisk development pace in terms of the area farmed under the organic system, which expanded to 1,614,226 hectares in the period 2009-2012, representing 17% of the total organic land area of the European Union. Owing to the significant areas farmed under the organic system and to the large number of registered operators, which also correlate with a low development level of the domestic markets for organic agricultural products, the emerging nations of the European Union represent an important source for imports of organic products in the EU.

Keywords: organic agriculture; evolution; emerging nations of the European Union.(search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q01 Q17 Q24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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